Chamelaucium
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Chamelaucium ( Syn .: Chamaelaucium DC.) Is a genus of plants in the myrtle family(Myrtaceae). The approximately 13 species are allnativeto Western Australia .
description
Chamelaucium species are evergreen shrubs with essential oils . The flowers stand individually in the leaf axes or grouped together in very differently structured inflorescences. The radially symmetrical , hermaphrodite flowers are five-fold and are pollinated by insects ( entomophilia ) or birds ( ornithophilia ). There are five sepals and five petals each. There are 20 to 25 stamens in each flower , about half of which are sterile staminodes. Two carpels have become an under constant ovary grown, with a stylus and a scar. There are walnut fruits formed. The seeds are winged or wingless.
species
There are about 13 species of Chamelaucium :
- Chamelaucium axillare F. Muell. ex Benth. : Western Australia
- Chamelaucium brevifolium Benth. : Western Australia
- Chamelaucium ciliatum Desf. : Southwest Australia
- Chamelaucium confertiflorum Domin : Western Australia
- Chamelaucium drummondii (Turcz.) Meisn. : Western Australia
- Chamelaucium gracile F. Muell. : Southwest Australia
- Chamelaucium heterandrum Benth. : Southwest Australia
- Chamelaucium marchantii Strid : Western Australia
- Chamelaucium megalopetalum F. Muell. ex Benth. : Southwest Australia
- Chamelaucium micranthum (Turcz.) Domin : Western Australia
- Chamelaucium pauciflorum (Turcz.) Benth. : Southwest Australia
- Hooked Chamelaucium ( Chamelaucium uncinatum Schauer ): Western Australia
- Chamelaucium virgatum Endl. : Western Australia
swell
- HR Coleman, 2008: Chamelaucium in the Western Australian flora . (engl.)
- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 15th edition, corrected reprint of the 14th edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8001-5072-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Chamelaucium. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved April 27, 2020.
